With success came an ever-growing burden of responsibility. I lived with a near-constant low-level anxiety that I would make a mistake that would not only threaten my career, but also my brothers' - not to mention the livelihoods of many people who work with us or for us. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it's about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her? Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>